# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chen-shih-chung
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:05:40.164Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chen-shih-chung"
name: "Chen Shih-chung"
slug: "chen-shih-chung"
description: "Chen Shih-chung is a Taiwanese dental surgeon and politician. He served as the head of the Ministry of Health and Welfare from 2017 to 2022. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he gained widespread recognition as the leading authority on the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he was the party's nominee to be the mayor of Taipei during the 2022 local elections, but lost to Chiang Wan-an."
tagline: "Taiwanese politician and dentist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E8%A1%9B%E7%94%9F%E7%A6%8F%E5%88%A9%E9%83%A8%E9%83%A8%E9%95%B7%E9%99%B3%E6%99%82%E4%B8%AD.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1953-12-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.86257333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/TaipeiShihChung"
    handle:    "TaipeiShihChung"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/taipeishihchung/"
    handle:    "taipeishihchung"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/TaipeiShihChung"
    handle:    "TaipeiShihChung"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Shih-chung"
    title: "Chen Shih-chung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Shih-chung"
    title: "Chen Shih-chung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Shih-chung"
    title: "Chen Shih-chung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E6%99%82%E4%B8%AD"
    title: "陳時中"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B2%9C%EC%8A%A4%EC%A4%91"
    title: "천스중"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Shih-chung"
    title: "Chen Shih-chung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B6%D1%83%D0%BD"
    title: "Чень Шичжун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B4%DB%8C%DB%81-%DA%86%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "چین شیہ-چنگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A2n_S%C3%AE-tiong_(ch%C3%A8ng-t%C4%AB_j%C3%AEn-bu%CC%8Dt)"
    title: "Tân Sî-tiong (chèng-tī jîn-bu̍t)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E6%99%82%E4%B8%AD"
    title: "陳時中"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E6%99%82%E4%B8%AD"
    title: "陳時中"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chen_Shih-chung"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28655382"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump